Belgium has launched its first smart highway test environment. Septentrio GPS/GNSS receivers are integrated into vehicles and infrastructure to provide dependable, high-accuracy positioning and to...
Photo: Lockheed Martin The National Space-Based Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) Advisory Board has scheduled a meeting for June 6-7 at the Westin Hotel in Alexandria, Virginia, reports the...
The Piksi Multi. Swift Navigation has issued a new firmware upgrade to its flagship product Piksi Multi GNSS module. This marks the fifth major...
Actions Necessary to Reduce Vulnerability and Ensure Availability By Brad Parkinson (From the 25th Anniversary GNSS History Special Supplement) Introduction Brad Parkinson About 40 years ago , we...
PRN 17, the first IIR-M satellite launched in September 2005, began broadcasting the second GPS civil signal, L2C, in December 2005. PRN 17 is the first in the new generation of GPS satellites with...
Septentrio has launched two new products. The AsteRxi is the company’s first multi-sensor GNSS receiver. AsteRxi processes high-quality GNSS measurements with IMU-measurements to generate an...
Photo: Lockheed Martin The National Space-Based Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) Advisory Board has scheduled a meeting for June 6-7 at the Westin Hotel in Alexandria, Virginia, reports the...
Orolia will host a second industry discussion on the positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) Executive Order, a federal initiative to protect critical infrastructure from GPS/GNSS jamming and...
The Institute of Navigation (ION) is seeking abstracts for ION GNSS+ 2021: GNSS + Other Sensors in Today’s Marketplace, which is slated to take place Sept. 20-24 in St. Louis. A virtual option for...
Autonomous GPS Positioning at High Earth Orbits To initially acquire the GPS signals, a receiver also would have to search quickly through the much larger range of possible Doppler shifts and code...
On April 2, German Federal Minister of Transport, Building and Urban Development Peter Ramsauer will officially open the German Galileo test and development infrastructure GATE with the operator IFEN...
The U.S. Air Force’s second new GPS III satellite, bringing higher-power, more accurate and harder-to-jam signals to the GPS constellation, has arrived in Florida for launch. On March 18, Lockheed...
GSG-54 GNSS simulator Spectracom’s new 8-channel GPS constellation simulator, the Pendulum GSG-54, provides a wide-range of capabilities for in-line production testing of devices...
By John Pottle and Neal Fedora John Pottle Precision matters. While “accuracy” is somewhat one-dimensional, “precision” is multi-faceted. We submit to you that whatever area of GNSS-based...
On November 18, a Consultation Event will take place in Brussels on the subject of receiver technology. The event is being held to inform the stakeholders of the European GNSS receiver community...
Jackson Labs Technologies has released the latest upgrades to its GPS simulator and transcoder product line. Screenshot: Jackson Labs The latest version of freeware application SimCon rev. 1.20 is...
Photo: Orolia Not just supporting players, alternative positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) systems strengthen, augment and — when needed — replace GNSS. GPS World explores how companies are...
A Look at High-Latitude and Equatorial Ionospheric Disturbances of GPS Signals By Yu Jiao, Yu (Jade) Morton, Steve Taylor, and Wouter Pelgrum INNOVATION INSIGHTS by Richard Langley THE EARTH’S...
Navigation and positioning test system supplier Spirent Communications this week introduced a software suite for the STR4500 GPS simulator, enabling users to generate their own test cases based on...
Photo: peeterv/iStock/Getty Images Plus/Getty Images Ambiguity and Environmental Data: Two Further Key Challenges of Multisensor Positioning By Paul D. Groves, Lei Wang, Debbie Walter, and Ziyi...